The Hindu 22.03.2013
Municipal corporation readies action plan for summer
Corporation to re-lay roads, de-silt drains and ensure water supply to far flung areas.
With the onset of summer, the GHMC has readied an action plan to re-lay fresh bitumen layers in parts of the capital, take up dredging of storm water drains and also provide free water supply to a few far flung areas of the suburbs.
Commissioner M.T. Krishna Babu told presspersons that tenders for 333 road works at an estimated cost of Rs. 40.11 crore are being finalised and will be grounded soon. About Rs. 30 crore worth of 280 road works in different areas have been completed recently.
Tenders for the annual de-silting or dredging exercise of the storm water drains or ‘nalas’ crisscrossing the twin cities will also commence soon with 230 of the 293 works finalised, at a total estimated cost of Rs.16.86 crore.
The Commissioner affirmed that the cost of the storm drain de-silting works in the North and South Zones also include provision for transporting the dredged silt to Jawaharnagar and it was made clear to the contractors.
A sum of Rs.13.79 crore has been sanctioned for 390 additional power bores and 50 more tanker trips in the suburbs which were part of the erstwhile municipalities. There are already 2,394 borewells functioning in these areas as also 155 tankers. He clarified that the free supply was meant for these pre-designated areas only and citizens within the core city will have to call the Water Board for any tankers.
